OCR Text |
Show THE BEE 4 among those the Tribune seeks to array cratic party and to bring Utah back into the against him. This paper makes no defense Republican ranks. They know from pre- for the A. P. A., because it needs none, vious experience that Roberts is so devoted out of existence, ami it would seem to his religion that be can always be counted that the Herald, for once, was right when it oil with certainty to stand by the church stated in a brief editorial that the subject at lh INM O flirt ut Sail liiy. fr iraiiuUl,w even if everything else has to be sacrificed. had no more right in Utah politics than the ll.ruuh lh mall, a1 moh1 rla iuMT. If he is defeated he will sav, as Ben Ilarri- - Tribunes former record on the Mormon son said, that the Lord did it. a church- question. If the Tribune is to be forgiven Kales of Subscription: Any part of the United States, Canada or Mexico. ie man equally as good will be elected in the for what it has said of the Mormons in the f i paid year, jtOhtAjre person of Alma Eldridge, Utah will be made past, if all the bitter utterances it lias exEngland, Franca, Germany, and all rouiitrlc rtu braced In Universal IoMal Union, on year, Mat,' paid i 0 Republican, and Roberts services will be ploited against them are to be buried in the rar. New Subscriptions may commoner at any timdurinMh grave of the days which are gone, surely it spared for the church. If the Fare' U not dslrd licyond th dai M)borUd for. th As to Roberts personally, everything else cannot well afford to make a campaign or more publishers should lx notified by letter. to before the term expires. aside, he is a man of marked ability, and as against Jackson, who, it appears, has a host Discontinuances : -- UemeinlH-r that the publishers must Is an orator is the peer of any man in the state. of warm and true friends among the element his paiT notlibsl by letter when a subserltsT wish which the Tribune seeks to alienate against In this respect he has the advantage of htopjMxl. All urrears must Is paid. Then he is all right on the silver him. Tin: Bin: understands that many memAddress all communication to BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, question and would soon stand well up bers of the Republican party were associated t City. among the best silver advocates in Congress. with Mr. Jackson in the days when the 307 Auerbach Block, flourished here. It mav0 be that some At the same time he is objectionable to the THURSDAY. SEPTEMlinK iHqH. jj. voters, and will lose the sup- of them will receive a nomination on the port of nearly all this element unless the Republican ticket, and it will be amusing to The nomination of Roberts silver issue keeps them in line. When Rob- watch the antics of the Tribune in that event. for Congress was no surprise erts bowed down to church dictation and With splendid opportunities to Tin: Bek. He was the log- signed the manifesto, after raising his voice at their county convention for ical candidate of the convention, and as soon so often and so eloquently against it, he lost as lie announced himself as a candidate and the putting up a strong ticket, disrespect of thousands who can not now went to work in earnest for the nomination be convinced fhat he is a fit nominee for satisfied Democrats have no one to blame there was little doubt of the result. His Congressman. Of course lie can be elected but themselves, when they complain at this election is a different thing, as a great many without that element if the faithful church- day that their legislative ticket is weak. Wherein is it weak? Too many Mormons, who wanted to sec him nominated now want men all support him, but we do not believe is the answer; Gentiles snowed under. to sec him defeated, and they are not they will, and do not believe he will be That is not the only element of weakness, either. Eldridge is a wealthy elected. even if it could be counted a factor in the Mormon residing at Coalville, who, we unThe Tribune has opened fire balance scale of politics . Of course the perderstand, lives his rcligeon the same as Robon D. C. Dunbar and C. M centage of lawyers is greatest on the ticket. erts does. He has the nomination of the Jackson, the first named being That always happens at every convention, regular Republican organization, and if y elected he will do the bidding of the county clerk and the last, one of the ten can- and will happen tomorrow at the Republican Republicans. He may claim to didates for the legislature on the Demo- convention. There is a fair sprinkling of The fight on Dunbar w'as ex- business men, a newspaper man, a- sheep be favorable to the free coinage of silver, cratic ticket. and in fact may be friendly to silver, but if pected, because he has refused to give the raiser, and the chances are that Mr. Foreelected he will owe his election to the ad- Tribune any business, and w'hen you touch man of Bingham is interested in mines in ministration influences, and will stear straight the pocket of Patrick Henry Lannan you some way or other. Such is the complexion But of the Democratic legislative ticket for Salt into the gold camp, the same as McKinley touch the spot where his heart beats. He is being Lake county, every one of whom may be reand hundreds of others have done. He may wdth Jackson it is different do a little kicking to please his silver sup- fried, toasted, roasted, fricassed and stewed lied upon, if elected, to vote for a silver porters in Utah, but that is all. For this rea- because he wras at one time connected with man (if not Frank Cannon) for the Senate son we do not chink any silver man can af- that organization which has gone out of ex- of the United States. The greatest mistake made by the Demford to vote for Eldridge no matter how istence, not only in Utah but in nearly every state in the Union. Jackson was not alone ocrats was in turning dowm Mr. Williamson, much he may dislike Roberts. If is well known that the controlling in- in this city, it being stated that several hun- the representative of the organized wage fluences of the Mormon church are and have dred more, including several dozen of very earners of Salt Lake. He was endorsed been for several years favorable to the Re- prominent citizens, manv of wnom are ad- by their trade councils and the only man The church leaders had vertisers in the Tribune at this time, wrere named having such an endorsement. This publican party. stipulated that Utah should enter the Union connected with him. Lannan has selected was made clear to the delegates by the perdelivered Jackson on whom to make a fight because son presenting his name to the convention. as a Republican state, and they But when the silver question the young man has no particular amount of Good politics w'ould have been carried out the goods. became so prominent the matter got beyond money behind him, and therefore cannot if such a man with such an endorsement had even the power of the church to control, bother the Tribune by w'ielding any financial been nominated unanimously. In utter disand this state swayed back into the Demo- influence against it. The editor of The Bee regard for the voting strength of the organcratic column. This has displeased those does not know' Jackson, except by reputa- ized wage earners, their candidate wras turned who control church affairs, and they have tion, has never had the pleasure of meeting dow n, Mr. Williamson failing to get half the been trying to check the tendency of the him, save on one occasion, but from reports votes necessary to nominate. We believe received concerning his character considers people toward Democracy. Perhaps the Republicans tomorrow may that Roberts is, unwittingly perhaps, to be him as one who has plenty of friends even profit by the blunder of the Democrats and THE r UHt! by those leaders to disrupt the Demo- BEE. liav-inggo- ne KnU-rt- 0 -- wet-k- . Fl-dridg- 1 e. so-cie- non-Morm- non-Mormo- Ilanna-McKinle- ns on tv |